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"jordy"
Nov 6, 2009, 1:31:49 AM11/6/09
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On Nov 6, 1:24 am, "\"jordy\"" <icn...@gmail.com> wrote:
I suppose that you can't be too afraid of getting out of your
comfort zone... or even if you are afraid, you can still do it, as
the
book says... often it's easy to have thoughts and day dreams and
fantasies about taking chances, taking risks, entering into
unfamiliar
situations with unfamiliar people... but there is a differance
between
thinking and feeling and day dreaming- and actually... doing.. doing
can be the difficult part... maybe it helps sometimes to just start
with new patterns? sometimes it's easy to get stuck in ruts, in the
same routines, the same ways of thinking, talking, going to the same
places, and doing the same things in pretty much the same way...
sometime I wonder if just slightly changing daily or weekly routines
could make a differance... such as altering, even slightly, your
eating and sleeping routines or the people you talk with, or the
things you talk about, or the places you go... they say that insights
often occour when you leave your comfort zone... but even insights
can
be a problem sometimes in terms of translating them into concrete
actions... It certainly is a good feeling when you learn insights,
but it's also a good feeling when you realize that you can do things
that you never thought you could do, that things you thought were
going to be so difficult, turn out to be easier then you thought...
social situations for example... sometimes you never think you'll be
able to talk with people who you don't know well, paticularly when
you
are out of your comfort zone... and then you find you can do it, at
least to some extent, better then you expected...
I suppose that you can't be too afraid of getting out of your
comfort zone... or even if you are afraid, you can still do it, as
the
book says... often it's easy to have thoughts and day dreams and
fantasies about taking chances, taking risks, entering into
unfamiliar
situations with unfamiliar people... but there is a differance
between
thinking and feeling and day dreaming- and actually... doing.. doing
can be the difficult part... maybe it helps sometimes to just start
with new patterns? sometimes it's easy to get stuck in ruts, in the
same routines, the same ways of thinking, talking, going to the same
places, and doing the same things in pretty much the same way...
sometime I wonder if just slightly changing daily or weekly routines
could make a differance... such as altering, even slightly, your
eating and sleeping routines or the people you talk with, or the
things you talk about, or the places you go... they say that insights
often occour when you leave your comfort zone... but even insights
can
be a problem sometimes in terms of translating them into concrete
actions... It certainly is a good feeling when you learn insights,
but it's also a good feeling when you realize that you can do things
that you never thought you could do, that things you thought were
going to be so difficult, turn out to be easier then you thought...
social situations for example... sometimes you never think you'll be
able to talk with people who you don't know well, paticularly when
you
are out of your comfort zone... and then you find you can do it, at
least to some extent, better then you expected...
Stephen Wilson
Nov 6, 2009, 12:22:46 PM11/6/09
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""jordy"" <icn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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You've written about your comfort zone a few times before. I'm not sure
which book you're referring to above. Is there a bad thing about being stuck
in a rut? If you're in a comfort zone, well maybe that's because it's
comfortable! It it's not, then change something.
Zed
Nov 18, 2009, 11:28:11 PM11/18/09
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On Nov 6, 9:22 am, "Stephen Wilson"
I'm trying to recreate and get back into mine. Never should've tried
excelling. Not worth the grief <grin>.
Eva
Nov 19, 2009, 9:21:57 PM11/19/09
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"Zed" <z...@cbgb.net> wrote in message
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I'm trying to recreate and get back into mine. Never should've tried
excelling. Not worth the grief <grin>.
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My comfort zone is under a blanket.
Eva
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